So....it's almost 2007....

Lots and Lots of stuffffs going on in SL....people re-branding, limited editions, discontinued items, big releases for the new year.....lots to see and even more to buy. I better get my @ss in gear!! Ok, so I've been working on a set for the past 2 weeks on and off due to the holiday and moving...it's almost done, just a couple tweaks and the Ads to be shot.....here's a sneak peek at FLAMENCO....

4 NEW: Jingle, Merry, Frosty and Noir

I've been a busy girl! 'Bout time huh! So, this is my last "holiday" update....the next clothes will be winter inspired but not Christmasy.

Frosty: Light Blue Wintery Capris and Tank, in the real world we'd freeze our butt off in this but in SL it's just cute!

Jingle: This is a re-do of one of my Christmas dresses from '05. Very Santa Claus inspired.

Merry: Bright red Christmas party dress/babydoll complete with sparkly accents and a big red bow.

Noir: Black strapless Top with flexi mini or flexi full length skirt. It would be a great New Years Eve party dress or as a friend told me a great "clubbing" dress for dancing.

I'm working on getting them out everywhere but so far they are only at my main location in Topgol. ENJOY!

BTW...all my 2006 Holiday items go away for good on Dec 26.




Model: Marissa Gallacher (Awesome job! You made me work easy peasy!)

BOGO EXTENDED!

The BOGO is extended until 8pm SL time tonight. Come and get the goodies while you can! :)

BOGO ANYONE??

Starts Friday 12/8/06 and runs thru Sunday

MORE CHRISTMASY GOODNESS

I had a few requests for a less "hoochie" version of my Christmas-kini so I came up with Candy Cane and I'm LOVING IT!! It's currently only out at my main location in Topgol. Here's a pic....

OPEN OPEN OPEN!

FINALLY! My main store in Topgol is OPEN! I've got the Santa Lucky Chairs up and running and a couple new Christmas Items out! YAY! I hope it was worth the wait! :)

**Tough Times.....**

As most of you know I STILL have not re-opened my main store after moving the location. RL has been very hectic, stressful and not condusive to working on my SL business lately. Horrid migraines and out of control Diabetes aren't helping matters either. I've gotten the IM's....I thank everyone for their well wishes and support and I promise to get things up and running before I leave for vacation Weds. I am going home(down to San Diego) for Thanksgiving with my fiance and his daughter and I am so excited I could just pop!

<3 Jolie

Store STILL closed.....

Soooo.....taking longer than antisipated to reset up......I'll let ya'll know when I re-open. :)

My Main Store is MOVING!

I decided it was time to move....I've been in Hennepin for almost 2 years WOW and I decided that I wanted a little growing room(the rest of the sim is owned by someone else) so....I bought new land on the South detached "mainland", at least that's what they called it LOL....anyhoo...it's flat, green and quiet(so far) and I think it will make a lovely location. Sylfie will be rejoining me once I'm up and running so don't worry, you can get your shoe fix while shopping at my Boutique. I hope to be up and Running no later than Monday night but we'll see....depends on how much i have to bug my fiancee to come in and reset up my Taj Mahal shop, he's the one that built it after all...and I'm just not a building builder so you'd see all the crooked prims if I did it LOL. I'll send out and IM to my group, post it on the forums and here once the new store is open for business. :))

A HUGE THANK YOU!

Thank you so much to everyone who came and bought items during my sale! I want to send an extra special thanks to Callie Cline who is a complete and total sweetheart and godsend! She went above and beyond and thanks to her efforts and the help of everyone else I am able to purchase the meds that I need to get better. THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart!!!

much love,

Jolie

NEW Lucky Chair Item for Novemeber

Remake of an old ballgown I did that I just loved. Made a mini this time and I'm lovin it again. Come and get it Lucky Chair hoppers! :) When November is over this dress will be on sale for $250L.

**50% OFF SALE**

As I said in my post on the forums, sometimes in life we have unexpected things happen and now is one of those times for me....I have no medical insurance right now and a bunch of medications that I'm in need of...SO..I'm having a 50% OFF SALE at my main HENNEPIN location to try and raise some much needed money. If you can't spend your $L please just send me some prayers and good vibes....I need all the help I can get.

Much love!
Jolie

2 NEW: Precious and Stardust

Got these 2 out the other day....so I thought and then when I went back the next day they were gone....dunno what happened...but anyhoo....they are out now at my main location and a few other places as well, slowly getting them everywhere. I'm loving Stardust, it's black, it's sexy, it's sparkly...what's not to love? Precious is soft and sweet and a bit sassy too. They both come with 2 diff prim options for your wearing pleasure. $250L Go get 'em! you know you wanna!

BTW, before I forget.....

I've added Lucky Chairs to my store cause I think it's a cute idea and of course gets more traffic in and your name out there more. Here are the items featured right now... :)

**NEW ITEMS**

I've released a couple new ones this past week and just put a brand new one(Stardust-a black sparkly flexi dress with 2 skirt options) out tonight. Here's some pics....hope you like :) I'm too tired to write much of a description. :/ sowwy....

TRICK OR TREAT

Here's a little something I whipped up for a Halloween look w/out having to get into costume. ENJOY!

ON VACATION

Well...I'm on vacation....have been since the 25th...won't be back home until September 4th and damn am I missing SL! I want to log in and check out my shop....talk to my friends and my customers.....*sigh* ahh well....no SL on this puter, for some reason it won't run....I'll survive! BTW, thanks so much to everyone buying my Limited Edition set WEWT WEWT! Ok....back to my vacation.....

**KATY!**

Here's a new sweater dress I made with a flexi skirt. It's named after an SL friend of mine Katy Angel, owner of Lavish Style. Today she gave me some tips on how to achieve the look I was going for and it totally paid off :)) TY KATY! BTW I have a link to her blog -------> so take a look.

well CRAPOLA! for some reason it wont let me add a picture so here's a link to it.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d125/tigerlili29/katyad512.jpg

IT'S TIME TO REDO SOME OLDIES BUT GOODIES

Due to several customer requests I've done some re-do's. First I recolored my J'adore dress in 6 other colors. They are available in a multipack or seperately. Next I redid the prim skirts of 2 of my most popular gowns. They are now flexified and I am LOVING the way the skirts came out! It makes the line of the dress look very elegant instead of big and poofy like the traditional prim skirts. Right now they are only at my main location but I'll get them out to others throughout the weekend. Also, for those of you who already own the Iris and Black Diamonds Gowns, I have just the new flexi skirt packaged next to the gown at my main store for $1 so you can upgrade. Have a great weekend everyone!!

LE FLEUR JOLIE

PHEW IT'S HOT!!! I almost worked myself into a puddle of sweat making this one today in the heat....no A/C in this room EEK! But, I was a good little designer and I got it done YAY! I''m loving the way it turned out....It's at the main store right now, yes, I'll get it out to more locations tomorrow...I'm tired! It comes with 5 tops, one is not pictured, shorts and a flexi skirt. I used 2 layers of prims on the skirt to make it look a little fuller, more poofy. $250L Come and get 'em!! :)) Hopefully tomorrow it will be a little less like a sweatbox in here and I'll be able to get some more things done.

**LIBELLULE MARKET CLOSED**

Sadly, I have had to close down the Market and sell off most of the land. I'm spending so much time going back and forth between here and my bf's place up in Northern California that I just wasn't able to dedicate enough time to it. Also due to some health reasons my RL finances are in the toilet right now and it helps to teir down and make some cash from the land sale. I will miss the Market like crazy! I loved it and I recieved SO many compliments on it from vendors and customers, I know they loved it too. BUT, RL is more important right now. I WILL be spending more time designing though since I won't be spending it on maintaining the Market. My Main store location is still there and is currently under construction...it should be finished tomorrow and up and running again. I'll have a bunch of new stuff to put out YAY! Ok, I feel like I'm rambling....so I'll shut up!

I'M baaaack!! AGAIN!!

After spending the better part of the past 2 months with my bf, up in northern Cali, I'm back home again. I have several items in the works and I can't wait to get crankin' on them!

Also, I read about Torrid's needing items for the RFL silent auction on PXP and I'm going to whip up something "one of a kind" and hope it raises some money :) Since the start of "Pixels in Pink" and RFL in SL I've wanted to do SOMETHING but wasnt sure what other than just donate L$. Cancer is something that has touched my life in many ways.... I had a Great-Aunt who died of breast cancer....I have an Aunt who is surviving breast cancer....I have a close friend who had testicular cancer and is now cancer free.....I have a close gf who survived a rare cancer of the muscle tissue, after surgeries, radiation treatments and a 2nd occurance she's now cancer free.....I myself was diagnosed with Thyroid cancer 3 years ago and for 2 agonizing months, through a biopsy and a surgery I wondered what was going to be the outcome BUT through some crazy twist of fate it turned out that my tumor was NOT cancer and luckily I got to keep the remaining 1/2 of my thyroid(which is working just fine thank god). I hope everyone takes this cause to their heart and opens their SL and RL wallets to help as much as they can.

OK, it's super late and I'm so tired I can hardly see straight...Night Night!

~Jolie

NEW FLEXI ALYSSA DRESS

YAY more flexiness! 4 colors to choose from. A little lace, a little embroidery, very feminine....can't be a bad thing right? Stop by and check 'em out! :)

50% OFF SALE

FLEXI TULIPS!

HOWDAY! I FINALLY got with the flexi wave and flexified one of my existing dresses to start out with, get my feet wet so to speak....Here are the pics....there will be more flexiness coming soon from JB I'm sure!! :))

**SILKEN and SEXAY**

Here's my 2nd hand drawn attempt. Lovin' it! It's so hot here right now I wish I had something that light and airy to wear, I'm roasting! It's out at my main store....I'll get it out in other spots after I come back from din din (a girls gotta eat yanno!).

WOW! I actually made something new! LOL It's ABOUT time! I'm pretty proud of these because they are the first ALL hand draw tops I've made. YAY!! Hand drawing definetly takes time and patience but the outcome is so rewarding. OK, back to work for me! No rest for the wicked!! ;)

I'm baaaaack!!

I'm back! Been on vacation for over 2 weeks and had a blast with my RL and SL Love. I've totally missed ALL the flexi stuff going on and boy oh boy do I feel out of the loop!!! I promise to get my ass in gear and get some new stuff done pronto! :))

Here's the latest....Unzipped! I decided to call it that because the Jean Capris are duh, Unzipped! hehe I was making the jeans and thought that would be an interesting look. I made them open just a teeny bit to give a peek at the low low tummy....sexy not trashy Maybe you just went out with the girls and you ate WAY too much pizza and then indulged in a hot fudge sundae and you just GOTTA undo your skin tight jeans. Not that we EVER eat in SL but hey, it's the imagination isn't it. I put them in a pack for $250L instead of just making the brown that the original shirt was. Yes, I did photosource the shirt, added some shading, changed the straps and voila MY shirt. I've been wearing it with a brown leather belt from Shiny Things and my new Rebel Stilettos from Sylfie's( those teddybear charms are fricken adorable!!)

Okie, I FINNNNALLY got these Ad's done and posted them on the forum! Damn, I'm lazy!

The first is the Non-Prim version of the Salsa Dress, it's called Athena cause it has kind of a Greeky/Romanish look(at least I think it does).

The second set I have had in the works for a month and I'm finally happy with it. Girly, casual, sweet and daisylicious(daisy lace on the bodice and sleeves). I made matching jeans that are slightly distressed to go along with it. It looks super comfy, dunno about you but I want it IRL! Oh, and I made the Top longer on Jacket layer for the preggers ladies(and the non-preggers ladies too, I like to wear the long ones with booty shorts LOL)

Okie...I"M TIRED! Nighty Night! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

LITTLE BO PEEP?

OK....I know I've been using my blog to post about my OWN items BUT....I bought this dress from Dazzle last night and OMFG! I am in LOVE! I feel UBER girly, cutesy and due to the low neckline HAWT! I've paired it with my Lassitude & Ennui mules. I am usually the kinda girl who changes outfits several times a day but I could honestly wear this for eons and never get bored with it. Yay Ginny! Tank Yee for being a kick ass designer but more importantly Tank Yee for being a kick ass friend :)

SHAKE THAT BUM BUM

OMG it's so late.....oh I guess I should say early 5am EEK! Wanted to plop this on here before I hit the sack. My newest and dare I say sexiest or trashiest....however you want to play it. It's called SALSA and it's inspired by the little dresses the Salsa dancers wear, ok I admit it, I watched Dancing with the Stars *wince*. Annnyyyhoooo.....I better get the pics on here before I pass out on my keyboard and wake up with an impression of the Enter key in my forehead. Nite Nite!

Soft Rosey Goodness

I got this one packaged up and out finally...so far it's only in a couple of my locations but I'll get it out everywhere soon enough. :)

New Variete Colors

I finally got around to making the ads for these....boy sometimes....I lag about that....have something made for days, sometimes longer and haven't made the ad so I can't put it up for sale. I'm sure I'm not the only designer who does that but makes me feel L-A-Z-Y! So far I put out Blue, Green and Purple...I also made a red version but I of course haven't done the ad yet for it. I've been wearing diff combos of this dress for a couple weeks now and I'm still lovin' it and let me tell you that is rare for one of my own designs...usually i love it for about a day then I want something new, typical SL shopoholic I suppose. I guess I'm a little diff than most designers in that I don't always wear my own clothes...I don't always make the type of outfit I'm in the mood for. It's never fun though when someone starts raving at you about the dress you are wearing and telling you what a wonderful job you did and you have to break it to them that it's not one of yours LOL. Oh well....anyway....hope you like! :)

*Wave* HELLO!

Yay...I joined the Blog club! Today is the start of Hair Fair in SL and OMG...I stopped by last night after midnight and almost went into hair shock! I wanted to BUY BUY BUY and I know before it's over I'll have spent oodles of money and need 10 heads to wear all the hair I'm gonna buy. LOL They've done the shoe wars and now we have Hair Fair....we need a Fashion Expo! Damn, why don't I have an island?? Annnyway....I think lately in SL, as a designer, I've been very frustrated! I read Torrid Midnight's blog today and I am totally with her on the idea that, as a designer you come out with an outfit you absolutely LOVE and you swear it's going to be a HUGE hit and then "dum dum dum" nobody buys it It leaves you thinking, am I that out of touch with what people want in here? I know that we all have a different style and in SL there is everything from Goth to Vamp to Casual to Sexy to Trashy to BOHO to Elegant and the list goes on and on but DANG! am I THAT off on my own clientele? Sometimes it's just frustratin'! YA KNOW! Another thing that has been buggin me is the whole Photosource issue.... Yes, I do photosource...I take a picture of a dress, shirt, skirt, pants that I'm loving and then I warp it, tweak it, change it up, move parts of it here or there, add shading, lines, other elements and make it MINE. Some say that I should be able to take a piece of fabric and turn it into that outfit I saw, and at times, I have done that, BUT I'm never as happy with the end result as I am when I start with that original picture. Maybe some designers in SL don't respect my work because of it but I feel like that's being an elitist and a snob. OK, enough rambling for today, I'm going to get back to working on my newest creation and hoping that someone out there loves what I do as much as I do :)